Potions | | Theodore Nott

"Oh, you bet there is!" Blaise laughed as he hopped up from his bed. "Pay up, lads!"

Blaise began to walk around the room with his hands open, Mattheo, Theodore, and Adrian all groaning with an eye roll as they threw money over at Blaise, landing in his hands. 

"You bet on me!?" Draco raised his voice.

"Yeah, we did." Adrian groaned. "Fuck you, Draco, your stupid little crush just cost me two hundred galleons!"

"Two hundred galleons!?" You raised your voice as well and you turned back and gave Theodore a look. "You bet two hundred galleons on Draco and Astoria?"

"Yeah, how stupid of me!" Theo groaned and held his head in his hands. "Blaise was the only one who thought that Draco would like Greengrass again."

"Really?" You asked. "How could he be the only one to think that? Look at my brother, is it so painfully obvious that he was gonna fall in love with Astoria again!"

"What?"

The room grew quiet and your stomach churned as you heard a specific voice.

"Astoria." Draco spoke.

Everybody's heads turned to face the door and there she was, Astoria stood in the doorway with her jaw agape and her hands down by her sides.

She was in shock, she had just learnt that her ex boyfriend was still in love with her.

Hell, you would be in shock, too.

"Astoria, it's not what it sounds like." Draco said to his ex girlfriend. "I-I don't like you again, I don't even love you again!"

Draco had always been a horrible liar, and he was still such a bad liar.

"Oh." Astoria quietly spoke.

She didn't know what to do with herself and neither did anyone else in the room. All of you were just looking back and forth between your twin brother and your best friend.

They were stood on opposite sides of the room and neither one of them knew what to do. Astoria looked like her heart had just been broken hearing Draco say that he did not like her, and Draco looked like he was about to throw up from all of the lying.

"I'm gonna-" Astoria spoke as she began to turn and leave the dorm room.

"Tori, wait!" Draco called out and Astoria slowly stopped walking, a sigh falling from her pink lips.

She turned around and looked at him.

"Oh, fuck it." Draco swore.

He walked right over to her and grabbed onto her face, smashing his lips into hers like he was hungry and craving her touch after a while of not having it. She kissed her ex boyfriend back with the same amount of passion and affection.

Mattheo wolf whistled from his bed, you began to clap and cheer, the other boys doing the same as you all watched them kiss and make up.

Draco slowly pulled his lips off of Astoria's and looked her in the eye before the two of them burst into laughter. His arms went around her neck and he brought her closer to his body, hugging her tightly.

"Oh, Merlin, I missed you." Draco quietly said to the girl in his arms. "Can we go and talk somewhere else?"

"I'd like that, yeah." Astoria replied with a huge smile on her face as she looked up at your twin brother.

He pulled away from the hug but kept one arm over her shoulder, her hand reaching up to hold onto his hand. The two of them waved goodbye to all of you as they left the dorm room to go and talk someplace else.

You laid back and melted into your boyfriend's body, your arms hugging his waist and he hugged you back. You got to talking with him and the boys, all of them except for one.

Blaise had been pretty quiet and you had noticed that it was a bit of a recurring pattern when you were with Theodore. You weren't sure why he was so quiet when you were with your boyfriend, but you had decided to ask him about it whenever you get the chance.

Thankfully, that chance came pretty quickly as the other boys had left to sneak into the kitchens and get some food for all of you.

"Can I ask you something, Zabini?" You asked Blaise.

The two of you were lying down on the beds, him on his one and you on Theo's one. You were both staring up at the ceiling as you laid there in silence, but now you had broken that peaceful silence.

"Shoot." Blaise replied.

"What's your problem with me?" You asked your boyfriend's best friend.

"I don't have a problem with you." He lied.

"That's a lie." You scoffed. "You very clearly have a problem with me, Blaise, and I just wanna know why."

He left out a heavy sigh before sitting up and turned to face you.

"I'm mad at you." Blaise spoke. "I have been since you broke up with my best friend for no reason."

You sat up as well, turning to face Blaise.

"Theodore forgave me, though." You said to him. "If he can forgive me, why can't you?"

"I don't know." Blaise truthfully said. "I think it's because there's always this fear in me that I'll have to pick him back up again, that you'll break his heart again."

"I would never do that." You told him.

That was a lie.

Tomorrow was December 1st.

The day that you had to take Theo's life.

You weren't going to take his life, but you were going to unfortunately break his heart.

You had no choice, it had to happen.

Everything was ready, there was no going back now, but you couldn't tell Blaise that.

"Theo is more than my best friend, Dani, he is my brother." Blaise said. "He's helped me get through some pretty tough times and I have helped him, too. There is nothing that I couldn't do for Theo, and I just don't want to see his heart broken again."

"I get that, I do." You said to Blaise.

A / N : I looked it up and apparently 10 galleons are equivalent to 5 Great British pounds, so 200 galleons would be roughly 100 GBP.

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